You may have seen Frenchman Alain Robert scaling tall buildings in news footage before now, but you wouldn’t have heard about or remembered him unless he was wearing his trademark Spider-Man suit. Seems our reality-based Spider-climber has run afoul of the law once again, this time after climbing the 88-stories-tall Jin Mao Building in Shanghai.
Robert was thrown into the Chinese slammer for five days, but not before attracting a great many onlookers and tying up traffic in the downtown area for quite a while. I suspect our Spidey-interloper isn’t all that worried about what will happen to him in a Chinese jail (unlike what happened to Jack Bauer between seasons 5 and 6 of 24, that is), however.
In fact, a page of Robert’s Web site devoted to videos of his many climbs features snippets of his latest “joyride” up the Jin Mao.
